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EPISODE · Aug 25, 2026 · 55 MIN

Jon Ronson on the algorithms sucking the life force out of disillusioned men

from The Radio National Hour · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

One Nation voters say Australia is on the wrong track and immigration is to blame. The Labor government would rather we look the other way, but fresh polling says  both major parties are bleeding votes over the issue. It’s been ten years since Myanmar’s military launched a murderous campaign to expel the country’s Rohingya minority forcing more than seven-hundred thousand people to flee the country. Fayazul Islam was just 11-years old when he escaped this horror. Now 20, he works as a photographer documenting his life and that of fellow Rohingya living in the world's largest refugee camp, Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. Author and podcaster Jon Ronson has a knack for sniffing out a bizarre story, his latest began when his son was lured to a mock gothic castle in suburban Connecticut and invited to participate in a reality tv series called Princesses 101. What followed was definitely not a fairytale. 

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